The brutal hand-to-hand fighting in Arnhem itself is vividly described, as is the remarkable evacuation ... This is history from the ordinary soldier's point of view and is all the better for it

Riveting ... reveals the ice-cool courage of British troops trapped in the bloody shambles of Arnhem

The work of Tariq Ramadan will take its place in the annals of Islamic thought

Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense

Milligan is the Great God to all of us

The Godfather of Alternative Comedy

That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man

Manifestly a genius, a comic surrealist genius and had no equal

A totally original comedy writer

Potent ... journalism of a high order. Like all good reporters, Burke is something of a scholar, drawing meticulously on interview notes years old, and on extensive background reading. He excels, too, in describing the experiences of ordinary Muslims; such insights make this book essential for understanding the past decade

Toni Morrison is not just an important contemporary novelist but a major figure in our national literature.

Powerful, sparse prose

Compelling...brief but intense...Morrison writes with her usual lyricism

It is beautifully, sparely written, as with all Morrison's work, and lingers in the mind long after the final page is turned

Spare and visual…a writer of consummate.

Pulsing with imaginative energy, it displays Morrison’s veteran ability to combine physical and social immediacy with psychological and emotional subtlety. A fine addition to Morrison’s expansive chronicling of black American history, Home is a compact triumph.

A highly fractured tale intended to resemble the crumbling nature of Money’s existence post war. Nothing is over-laboured. Each word resounds with sultry, heat-oppressive Georgia.

Morrison's writing is so deft that even barely sketched characters leap off the page

Home is a powerful reminder of the impact the past plays on the present

Morrison can say more in one word than most novelists manage in an entire book. Superb

Bursting with poetic language and horrific events this is a penetrating insight to the African-American experience

It is a powerful set-up, building suspense and a mounting sense of anxiety

Toni Morrison’s mesmerising prose manages to be both elegiac and visceral at the same time